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| Phil Graham on 26 Sep 2000 06:45:24 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Water-shedding |
Ahhh ... sorry. I've been so used to listening to discourses about the
death of the writer, the linearity of text, the obsolescence of the book,
etc etc etc, that I didn't here the prosody of "yeah, right", the
double-positive of ironic negation (or something) ...
8( < = two fried eggs on face, no cheese.
regards,
Phil
At 10:03 PM 25/09/00 -0400, Joshua Goldberg wrote:
>It was a slightly tongue in cheek statement. More than slightly. Online,
>nobody can hear you nuance.
>
>I myself spend hours each day building virtual sandcastles. I can't write
>well, and I wish I could.
>
>I am fully aware that the art I create is impermanent- far more so than
>simple words. I worry about the CD-ROM as an archival format; I hope he is
>also keeping copies on paper.
>
>I always forgive questions. They beat flames any day. ;) <--please note
>smiley denoting bemused forgiveness and ingratiating humor.
>
>best
>
>j
>
>on 9/25/00 10:25 AM, Phil Graham at phil.graham {AT} mailbox.uq.edu.au wrote:
>
> > At 08:34 AM 25/09/00 -0400, Joshua Goldberg wrote:
> >> "Anyone working as a digital artist is building castles made of sand."
> >>
> >> -- Jaron Lanier.
> >>
> >> I suppose Alan Sondheim can be forgiven for being mostly a writer.
> >
> > Why would a person need "forgiveness" for being a writer? Are you
> > dispensing forgiveness to all us writers? Would you also forgive musicians
> > too, since they are even more prehistoric than writers?
> <...>
>
>--
>Josh Goldberg
>josh {AT} goldbergs.com
>
>"It's OK, my sheet's got a hole in it!"
>
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